Quotes of the Week - June 17, 2008:
"I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric.
Phrases such as 'bring them on' or 'dead of alive' indicated to people
that I was, you know, not a man of peace." -- US President George
W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
"The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign
terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in US
courts.
"He didn't like the nose" -- Courtroom sketch artist Janet
Hamlin on the response of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
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T. S. Eliot Quotes - Famous T. S. Eliot Quotes, Quotations, Poems
In
my end is my beginning. T. S. Eliot Four Quartets, East Coker, pt. 5
I
do not know much about gods;
But I think that the river
Is a strong brown god. T. S. Eliot Four Quartets, Dry Salvages, pt. 1
The
river is within us, the sea is all about us. T. S. Eliot Four Quartets, Dry Salvages, pt. 1
Ash
on an old man's sleeve
Is all the ash the burnt roses leave. T. S. Eliot Four Quartets, Little Gidding, pt. 2
And
the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot Four Quarters, Little Gidding, pt. 5
A
people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails
On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel
History is now and England. T. S. Eliot Four Quarters, Little Gidding, pt. 5
We
are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! T. S. Eliot The Hollow Men
Here
we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning. T. S. Eliot The Hollow Men
Between
the idea
And the reality
Between the emotion
And the act
Falls the Shadow. T. S. Eliot The Hollow Men
This
is the way the world ends
Nor with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot The Hollow Men
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